Gittel

#3,415 in 2025Girls' name

Good

Gittel has been given to 1,479 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #3,415 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Gittel, 2025

1 in 73,700

Gittel over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gittel: meaning, origin, and history

Good

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gittel means

Gittel means “good”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,479 girls were recorded with the name Gittel between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 79 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,334 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,418 in 2020 to #3,415 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,230 in 2015 to #3,415 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Gittel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 73,700; 45 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 35,700; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #3,415; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 51,066 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Gittel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gittel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gittels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gittel was born before 2010 — so the typical Gittel is around 15 today.

Median birth year: 2010; About 15 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 72.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 1,479; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (451).

Is Gittel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −1,081; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +3; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: −185; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.88×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 57.0%; Peak was 2024 (79)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,334; 2024

Spellings of Gittel

Gittel is not the most common spelling — Itzel is, with 62.8% against Gittel's 4.4%.

Itzel62.8%21,316
Gitty10.9%3,715
Gissel7.5%2,563
Gisel6.7%2,283
Gretel4.5%1,514
Gittel4.4%1,479
Grettel3.2%1,089

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gittel is used

Across 1910–2025, Gittel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 14,227 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 16,667).

67 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 14,286
2New Jersey1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gittel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gittel around the world

Where Gittel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1996–2025
#4,201
in 2025
Canada
1991–1991
#2,397
in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Gittel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #3,415
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 3
Best rank ever: #2,334; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 79 that year
First recorded: 1963
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,479
Count in 2025: 45

Names similar to Gittel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Gitel Gretel Gitty Grettel Cristel Gita Kristel Krystel Yittel Shontel Ettel Shantel Crystel Shawntel Chantel Estel Shauntel Gitzel Christel Mattel Chauntel Shuntel Gitana Chontel

Sibling names for Gittel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Leonor Karleigh Keren Shoshana Nila Kamilah Eloisa Denisse

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Caesar Tobin Henri Arvin Leander Lucio

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